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 61 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-SHIPPING-AUG. 5, 1944 11. The Executive Board shall be the duly authorised body for the purpose of paragraph 9 of the Agreement on Principles, but it is understood that no decision reached under that paragraph by the Governments represented on the Executive Board shall impose any new or greater obligation on any other contracting Government with- out its express consent. 12. A Planning Committee shall be set up to begin work in London as soon as possible after the signature of the Agreement on Principles for the purpose of working out on a basis satisfactory to the contract- ing Governments the details of the machinery required to enable the Executive Board to discharge its functions, including the functions under paragraph 7 (/). Any contracting Government may be repre- sented on the Planning Committee. 13. The Executive Board shall have the full use of the machinery and procedure of the War Shipping Administration and Ministry of War Transport in order to avoid duplication. 14. The contracting Governments shall nominate their representa- tives on the Planning Committee to the Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom, as soon as practicable. They shall also so nominate their representatives as members or as associate mem- bers of the Executive Board as the case may be. The Governments of the United States and the United Kingdom shall be responsible, in consultation with the other contracting Governments concerned, for determining the date of coming into operation of the central authority in accordance with paragraph 7 (a) of the Agreement on Principles. 3789 Ante, p. 3786. Planning Com- mittee. Ante, p. 3786. Ante, p. 3785. 9S47P-40 --p. Iv-29

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